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Google Programming Contest

Posted by michael on from the do-you-feel-lucky-punk dept.

AccordionGuy writes: "Google has just announced its first annual programming contest! The objective is to write a program that will do something "interesting" with the about 900,000 Web pages' worth data that's Google provides. In addition to writing the program, contestants also have to convince the judges why their program is interesting (or useful) and why it will scale (that is, handle a constantly increasing load of data that grows as the Web grows). The prize is US$10,000 in cash, a V.I.P. tour of the Google facility in Mountain View, California and possibly a chance to run their program on Google's complete billion-Web-page store."

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  1. Obvious feature everyone would use by belphegore · · Score: 3, Redundant

    Six degrees of Google Bacon. How many links (and what's the path) to get from any page on the web to Kevin Bacon's personal homepage. Or more interesting from any page to any other page.

  2. Re:Well, here's an idea.. by The+G · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This is f*cking brilliant. I love it. I imagine a little variable-color smiley-frowny-pissed-off face next to each link...
    --G

  3. Re:Free ideas and free code development for Google by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    >you're the winner, in which case you get $10k for
    >hacking together a script that you never could have
    >afforded to run anyways.

    Finally someone with a brain capable of separating logical ideas from paranoia.